2003 Runner-up for the ECPR Rudolf Wilderman Price (best paper from a young scholar at the ECPR 2002 conference)

2002-2003 Visiting scholar grant, awarded by the Government of Ireland. One-year stay as visiting scholar, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin

2001-2003 Three-year doctoral scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

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Languages

German (mother tongue), fluent in English and French, basic knowledge of Spanish and Swedish

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Other professional activities

President of the Scientific Council for the new joint Master Program «Public Opinion and Survey Re-search» of the Universities of Lausanne, Lucerne and Neuchâtel since 2012

Member of the planning committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systerms (CSES) since 2014

Member of the steering committee of the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) since 2012

Member of the management committee, Cost Action «The True European Voter» 2011-2014

Swiss representative at the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) since 2008

Professional memberships: Swiss Political Science Association, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, International Political Science Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung, European Survey Research Association, RC 33 of the International Sociological Association («Logic and Methodology in Social Science»)

Co-director of the working group of the Swiss Political Science Association «Representation and Political Behaviour» (since 2011, with Prof. Daniel Bochsler, Prof. Regula Hänggli, Dr. Anke Tresch) Program chair of the working group 2012, 2013, 2014

Founder of the annual conference/exchange «Wahlstudientreffen Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz» of the respective elections studies on methodological innovations and issues of election studies and program chair 2011 and 2014

Conference section «Political elites in electoral democracies» with 7 panels and 32 papers in total at the ECPR General Conference 2013 in Bordeaux (with Prof. Hermann Schmitt) and a panel in this section on «Variations of Individual Candidate Campaigns» with 3 papers (with Prof. Michael Marsh)

Organisation of a workshop sponsored by the SAGW on «Improving Data Access and Research Trans-parency (DART) in Switzerland» taking place in autumn 2014. This conference suggested by myself and Prof. Peter Farago (FORS) was approved by the SAGW in November 2013

Referee Acta Politica, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Studies, Swiss Journal of Political Science as well as European Science Foundation, Swiss Na-tional Science Foundation, Oxford University Press

Member of the editorial board of European Political Science

Regular media appearances in connection with national and local elections and votes, electoral systems, and political participation in Switzerland in electronic and print media